Roles in a Community Essential Activities for Grade 2
Videos
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Community Helper Trivia
Ask your students what they know about community helpers. This video teaches us that community helpers are people in a community that do a job that helps others or helps the community. The video illustrates that community helpers perform specific roles. Examples given in the video include doctors, hairdressers, librarians, police officers and more. A fun trivia game is played and students find to the community helper that helps with a given problem or need.
Students learn and understand that a community functions better when the needs of its members are being met. Community helpers fill these roles. Extend the learning by discussing helpers that students know personally such as family or friends that are community helpers. Students enjoy discussing what job they want to do when they grow older as well. Ask how many want to be a community helper and why they want that kind of job.
Use this video in your social studies class and have fun learning about community helpers.
Apart from all the academic learning, it is very important that your child grows up with some good morals too. Being a good citizen is one of them. Your kid must know what kind of gestures and what acts he must do in order to be a good citizen. And it is the parent’s responsibility to explain and demonstrate it to their kids what being a good citizen means. To give you a head start let me explain something to you. A good citizen is a person who is kind to the people around them.
Being a good citizen also means that you keep your environment neat and clean. All the trash must be thrown into the dustbin. Being naive to your neighbors also makes you a good citizen. You can prepare some worksheet with different scenarios printed on it. Ask the child to encircle the situations in which the kid is being a good citizen. This would, of course, include a small girl being polite to the elderly. You can also put a picture of some kid drawing on a wall, this would go under the category of the bad citizen which the child must be able to distinguish. In the same way, you can use some other situations to demonstrate the concept of a good citizen.
But remember the kids learn what they see. If they see you throwing your trash on the road or being impolite to the elderly, they would do the same. So, make sure you practice good behavior yourself so that your kid becomes a good person automatically.
As a parent or a teacher, you can use different examples to teach the children what voting is. The two most important things that will work in this case are Youtube videos and your examples. So, make sure to build some great an easy to understand scenarios for your child so that he can learn what voting is and why it’s imperative.
You can start by telling your little one, how a vote works. In this case, you can put an example in front of him of a situation in which no one can decide what to eat for dinner. In this case, people usually vote and the majority of the people who are willing to eat let’s say “pizza”, they win.
Learning about doctors for kids is not only an educational social studies activity, but it is also a way that parents can teach children about who a doctor is and what a doctor does. Instruction and preparation go a long way in calming any fears that young children may have about going to get a child check-up.
Children are less afraid of a medical situation if they learn about what happens at a doctor’s visit and the importance of doctors.
Worksheets
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City Workers Community Helpers Worksheet
Who are city workers, and how do they help the community? Can your child name some of the ways city helpers help the community? Use this worksheet to teach your little one that city workers are people who help keep the community clean and safe for citizens. They also make the rules that govern the community and act as leaders. Check the pictures in the free PDF that correctly shows what a city worker does.
Community helpers are more than police officers and firemen! Community helpers are all citizens who perform and important services for people who live there. This community helpers PDF worksheet will help your child recognize and appreciate the helpers in his or her community!
Offer this worksheet to help your child:
• Recognize the various jobs people complete in the community
• Gain a greater understanding of contributing to one’s community
We often take our community helpers for granted. Teach your child early how to be an appreciative member of society using this thought-provoking worksheet meant to shed awareness on common community helpers!
A community is an area where different people live. Communities can have schools, homes, and places of worship, businesses and other buildings in them. In order for a community to run smoothly and to grow, it is important that the members of the community follow certain rules and guidelines that are stated. You can use this colourful worksheet to teach your kids more about the rules that guide communities. Ask them to look through the printout and check the box next to the picture that shows someone following community rules.
Rules at home and out in public differ, since breaking the law can result in harsh consequences!
Kids should understand the difference to learn more about life in their community. Rules and law worksheets for 2nd grade review the difference between common everyday laws and rules in the home.
Does your child understand what actions they can take to be a good citizen, and the actions that make a person a bad citizen? Look at the pictures in the worksheet and ask your child what the children are doing. Are they being good citizens or bad citizens? Then, check the correct badge for each citizen. After completing this worksheet, your child should have a better understanding of how to act as a good citizen.
In the community, people work at jobs that serve others and are considered services, as opposed to the goods that we buy at the store. Help your child learn the difference using this helpful social studies worksheet from Kids Academy! In each square, a sentence describes a common service that can be found in the community. Read through each with your child and guide him or her to select the correct worker who does the job that performs each service.
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